Roman Udalov is a self-taught artist based in Los Angeles. With a decade of production experience, he's worked on countless music videos, photo shoots, TV shows, and movies.
His art blends surrealism with practicality to create visually stunning, recognizable forms.
Using color, texture, and bodies, his work transports the viewer to a specific world that exists only within his art. As he evolves as an artist, he's drawn to surrealism and abstraction, aiming to distort and bend bodies and create grotesque vignettes that reflect his inner voice and self-perception.
Smart Barnett is an artist and designer living and working in Manchester. His work sits at the intersection of textiles and digital art. Embroidery is at the core of Smart’s practice and the contrast of this often perceived, traditional technique combined with the imagery and themes within his work can be disarming and provocative.
Smart draws inspiration from contemporary image cultures relating to online dating and web/screen based intimacy and how these cultures have expanded the range and familiarity of erotic imagery.
He explores what we reveal online yet at the same time conceal. As Smart’s practice develops, his work is becoming more personal and subjective. Leading him to question his own exhibitionist tendencies, obsessions, self image and trauma.
Inside the safe, normative space of embroidery, Smart aims to create artworks that are expressive and bold, yet intimate in their dimensions.
David Hoyle is a performance and visual artist. His work for the last 30+ years has referenced gender, politics, identity, mental health issues and the ongoing fight for equality.
His artworks have featured in numerous exhibitions including DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics curated by Vincent Honoré | Warehouse 9, Copenhagen | Centre D’art Santa Mònica, Barcelona. Solo shows at Homotopia Liverpool | Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow etc.
The majority of these works were created during lockdown, as a response to our ever worsening political situation.
Lee Baxter is a Manchester based photographer and designer whose work is influenced by his immediate surroundings.
This series of images created during lockdown were inspired by an unloved and neglected park area in Ancoats. Situated on the wrong side of the canal, this hidden paradise was rough around the edges but had a tangible sense of mystery and danger.
A place to explore themes of folklore, fairytale, spring awakening, disco and cruising.
Lee was also interested in the idea of the blossoming flower in a hostile environment, its unashamed flamboyance and need to be seen. (This was something he could relate to) 